proud - Story 107608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust motes danced in the sunlight as Thomas rummaged through the trunk. The family portrait of his great-grandfather was a rigid affair, the man presented as a stern, unyielding figure. Thomas had never felt a connection to this image.

He unearthed a photo of his great-grandfather as a young man, dressed in ragged clothes, a mischievous glint in his eyes. There were more, depicting him laughing, clowning, and enjoying life.

A burst of laughter escaped him. It was a wonderful revelation, a discovery. His great-grandfather wasn’t the stoic statue he had imagined. The man in the photos was real, and Thomas felt a profound sense of satisfaction.

Emotion: proud

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.68 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.40

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion proud. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 proud stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the proud emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the proud vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.514
`la`	0.457
`😎`	0.400
`happy`	0.394
`👏`	0.393

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.672
`😞`	-0.480
`😣`	-0.460
`worse`	-0.455
`😖`	-0.453